How's my luck?

After two weeks and down to my last couple of blank DVDs, I have yet to find success in imaging my hard drive. What's I'm looking is to create a bootable disc and back up my hard drive to a bunch of DVD discs. I've tried the following:

You are lucky that it failed. Better now than when you have to restore the image. Use a HD to store your images and you will avoid DVD grief.

Click to expand...

I agree.
Storing images on DVD is very risky.All it takes is a small scratch on one disc or other degradation for the whole backup to be rendered useless.An external HDD or usb key are far more reliable (and durable) methods of image storage.

The very fact that you've tried a number of usually reliable utilities and have failed to create and restore a usable image should serve as a warning.

If you really must use DVDs for backup,then I suggest you use the least level of compression possible.